Natasha Stott Despoja (SA, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

I thank my colleague for yielding that time. I did not realise the subject matter of his speech; otherwise he could have done this for me. I just thought it was appropriate that in this place, like any other place, we acknowledge the fifth anniversary of September 11—and I do not mean in the form of a discussion of the policy matter or dorothy dix questions.

Among those thousands killed in America five years ago there were 10 Australians. They were Alberto Dominguez, Yvonne Kennedy, Craig Neil Gibson, Steve Tompsett, Elisa Ferraina, Lesley Anne Thomas, Leanne Whiteside, Kevin Dennis, Peter Gyulavary and, of course, Andrew Knox, who was known to some of us in this place and was a dear friend. I just wanted to make sure that their lives were acknowledged today and that we did not just talk about the politics and the policy, important as that may be.